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361. Physiologic Predictors of the Need for Trauma Center Care: A Systematic Review (pdf file)
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     May 31, 2017 - illnesses, patients with burns or chemical exposures, healthy people, and animal studies, Studies … studies). … The studies maybe randomized trials or prospective or retrospective observational studies. … not triage studies. … We will not exclude studies rated high risk of bias a priori, but high risk of bias studies will be

362. Disposition of Comments for CER 183 Tonsillectomy for OSDB (pdf file)
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     January 17, 2017 - studies were excluded since many of such studies did fulfill the retention criteria in page ES-4. … We attempted to stratify studies based on factors such as age or obesity, but few studies reported … We did not identify studies or analyses explicitly focused on this population, though some studies … , and registry studies. … Two of 2 studies of ketoprofen and 2 of 2 studies of lornoxicam reported bleeding, but we did not

363. Methods Guide for Medical Test Reviews (pdf file)
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     July 01, 2012 - useful to consider the range of limitations in medical test studies. … In a series of studies of bias in the context of medical test literature, Whiting et al. reviewed studies … .1 However, medical test performance studies differ from intervention studies in that they are typically … Trials Application to Medical Test Performance Studies Low. … for reporting observational studies.

364. Chronic-Kidney-Disease-Anemia-2011 Executive (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2011 - studies) and assessed and reported each methodological quality item for all qualifying studies. … ESA doses varied across studies. … ESA doses varied across studies. … Insufficient • Only 7 of the 27 studies reported information: – 3 studies reported no adverse … There is no uniform iron management algorithms across studies • Future observational studies should

365. Evidence Summary-Comparative-Effectiveness-Review-213-Lower-Limb-Prostheses (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2018 - Many studies use nonvalidated instruments. … Overall, we found 80 eligible studies (in 77 articles), of which 55 studies evaluated psychometric … properties addressing Key Questions (KQ) 1 to 3, 14 studies provided data relevant to KQ 4, no studies … for KQ 5, two studies for KQ 6, and eight studies for KQ 7. … The studies analyzed data from 109 to 555 participants followed for 1 to 7 years (except for two studies

366. Hepatitis-C-Treatment-Adherence Executive (pdf file)
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     September 22, 2011 - Half of these studies were RCTs of fair36 or poor quality.27,28,33,35,37 The remaining studies were … cohort studies rated as good29,32 fair,26,30 or poor quality.31,34 Most of these studies were conducted … (Strength of evidence = low) • Four studies (two good-quality cohort studies, one poor-quality RCT, … We encountered additional issues in crosstrial comparisons for these studies, including studies that … Most studies had wide inclusion criteria, although a number of studies excluded those presumed to

367. Supplemental Project To Assess the Transparency of Reporting for Strategies To Improve Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2017 - For studies that are ongoing but not completed, what was the date of initiation of the studies? … (c) For completed and unpublished studies, we planned to reach out to authors of discontinued studies … discontinued studies identified via clinicaltrials.gov, and complete but unpublished studies identified … (KQ 1) We identified 17 studies, reported in 17 articles4-19 (including two studies in a single article … and searches of sibling studies in order to capture all relevant studies. 10 References

368. Disposition of Comments Report for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs: A Comparative Effectiveness Review and Meta-Analysis (pdf file)
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     June 10, 2013 - The majority of studies we included are recent studies. … How many more studies in other settings would be available if studies with follow- up of 6 months were … and PA combined studies. … We have also included new studies based on our search for more recently published studies. … There were 9 studies.

369. Stroke-Atrial-Fibrillation Executive (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2013 - The relationship of studies to the review questions is as follows: 37 studies relevant to KQ 1, 17 studies … relevant to KQ 2, 43 studies relevant to KQ 3, 13 studies relevant to KQ 4, 0 studies relevant to … populations between some studies. … • Studies of bridging therapies (seven retrospective studies; two good quality, four fair quality, … A total of 13 studies were included in our analysis, of which 7 were prospective cohort studies and

370. Wireless-Motility-Capsule Executive (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2013 - We included a total of 12 studies (in 18 publications) in this review.11, 25, 33-42 Seven studies ( … in these studies. … The sensitivity was moderately greater in some studies, but some studies reported slightly lower specificity … No included studies addressed these outcomes of interest. … The other studies did not report on conflicts of interest.

371. Layout 1 (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2011 - Few studies used objective scales. … We provide the designations only for good (or poor) studies; the remaining studies are all of fair quality … We provide the designations only for good (or poor) studies; the remaining studies are all of fair quality … efficacy studies Comparative adherence in Insufficient Evidence from existing studies is insufficient … We provide the designations only for good (or poor) studies; the remaining studies are all of fair

372. Mass-Casualty-Events-Scarce-Resources Executive (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2012 - of the studies was high- quality. … Over half of the included studies comprised computer simulations rather than intervention studies, … A total of 119 studies met our criteria for inclusion. … Only three studies used randomized designs, and nearly all studies were limited by small sample sizes … Collectively, these studies present encouraging findings.

373. Interventions Targeting Sensory Challenges in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders - An Update (pdf file)
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     May 26, 2017 - You will reach different conclusions from the sensory integrative studies and the sensory based studies … We considered the evidence separately for Ayres- based studies and for other sensory integration studies … We considered the evidence separately for Ayres-based studies and for other sensory integration studies … This seems a major concern for many of the studies. … Description of included studies well done; table 2 provides a good overview of types of studies included

374. Health Information Exchange (pdf file)
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     December 01, 2015 - We did not include studies of exchanges of data for research only, or studies about hypothetical or … No studies of harm were reported. … ); inefficient workflow (10 studies); poorly designed interface and update features (7 studies). … Fewer studies were based on national surveys/datasets, and a comparatively small number of studies … (5 studies).

375. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2010 - , or compare studies in the first 4 yrs and last 4 yrs Newer studies appear to have reported lower … disagree with the suggestion to pool all studies. … The percent of women in the studies are high enough for the findings from the studies about the effect … Most studies reported hazard ratios, implying at least a time to event analysis, though granted studies … we did include such studies in this review).

376. Management of Infantile Hemangioma (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2016 - The systematic review included 148 unique studies published from 1982 to June 2015. … This makes the interpretation of the findings of some of the studies challenging. … the review included few studies of steroids. … difficult to combine or compare outcomes across studies. … ��Studies differed widely in terms of IH stage and lesion location.

377. Prostate-Cancer-Test Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     October 14, 2011 - case- control studies. … , diagnostic accuracy studies, or case-control studies. … ○ Matched studies The highest quality studies for this purpose will be “matched” studies of … of these studies … ○ Unmatched studies Unmatched studies will be nonrandomized trials or other comparative studies

378. Glaucoma-Screening Surveillance (pdf file)
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     January 01, 2013 - No new studies were identified. … two studies of the diagnostic accuracy No new studies were identified. … Evidence From Primary Studies. Four studies discussed the accuracy of FDT C-20 perimetry. … Evidence From Primary Studies. Two studies included examination of GAT. … Evidence From Primary Studies. Two studies included examination of GAT.

379. Chronic-urinary-retention-protocol (pdf file)
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     November 19, 2012 - Criteria for Inclusion/Exclusion of Studies in the Review. … Assessment of Methodological Risk of Bias of Individual Studies. … Information about these studies will be made available in appendices. … If we find two or more studies for the same comparison, we will consider pooling data from those studies … / (5579) 41 exp case  control studies/ (586243) 42 exp cohort studies/ (1234174) 43 Case control.tw

380. Disposition of Comments Report for CER 207 on PTSD (pdf file)
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     May 17, 2018 - However, the studies you cite also serve as models for acceptable research in future studies. … heterogeneity across studies OR when there are 5 or more studies with moderate heterogeneity. … We have modified our “rules” of pooling studies to include bodies of evidence with at least 3 studies … the studies had been included. … In many studies, data capture ends following treatment dropout, but studies have increasingly been following